Hi All!
I’ve been researching painting schemes for a Bf-109G I am currently building and came across this:
http://ipmsstockholm.org/magazine/2000/02/stuff_eng_profile_bf109.htm
I am really interested in the camouflage pattern as shown on the Bf-109E-1 from the autumn of 1939 (this is the second diagram down on the above page). What I am looking for is a top view of this aircraft. Does anyone know where I might find it so I can see the overall painting scheme to replicate it?
Thanks!
-Ro
The writer of the IPMS Stockholm article seems to be quite well informed, and he designed the color profiles also. An email to him might yield some info.
Alas, I tried that already. That email account is dead.
-Ro
Speaking in general some of the fusalages had some odd camo but the wings tend to keep with the norm as far as camo patterns go. Night fighters and some oddballs did have different upper wing camo. I would GUESS that this bird would be the same. Sometime in mid 1940 the started playing with the Emils camo. Since your bird fall right in the middle of 1940 in july it would be hard to tell which it would have. The lower left is the most common camo pattern and paint for Emils in 1940. The upper left camo is more very early 1940 and back. I don’t have a better reference for this ship right now. The info you have gives you the colors used the patters are below for typical E. My guess is it’s the lower left pattern, best I can do.
Thanks Phoenix! These diagrams may come in handy. If you happen to come across anything further, please let me know.
-Ro
But what about the other side of the fuselage? Often I’d find an interesting camo pattern, but the drawing usually show only one side of the plane. From the look of top-down views I am pretty certain camo for both side of the fulseage are not symmetrical or mirrored.
Truly! I second this sentiment! Often they are not mirrored. It would be great to see diagrams from the right and left sides, as well as top and bottom.
-Ro
Truly! I second this sentiment! Often they are not mirrored. It would be great to see diagrams from the right and left sides, as well as top and bottom.
-Ro
Truly! I second this sentiment! Often they are not mirrored. It would be great to see diagrams from the right and left sides, as well as top and bottom. -Ro
Many photos of aircraft show only the left side because traditionally, names and markings are painted on the left side nose/cockpit area. Especially with German planes, where most pictures were taken in a propaganda context, this is often the case. And you really can’t make color plates when you don’t have pictures.
It isn’t as much of a problem with US planes becuase they were rarely camouflaged, but the problem exists for the ones that were. For example, no pictures exist of the right side of Gabreski’s P-47 - meaning that it must be invented.